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Re: sensitive Varroa sampling - early detection
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Pete B <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 22 Jun 2020 14:26:01 -0400
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> Therefore, you test two colonies if you have 10 or less in your apiary; you test 10 colonies if you have 100, etc.  Randomly selected, of course.

Working as a state inspector for NY, we did 10%. If the yard was 10 or less, we did them all. When checking for foulbrood, I check the weakest and the strongest first. The idea is to find it, not gauge the incidence. Profiling, not random selection, is what you want.

PLB

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